I. To knock, strike, or dash out, to tear out, to force out, squeeze out.
A. Lit.: “aurigam e curru,” Cic. Rep. 2, 41: “oculos,” Plaut. Rud. 3, 2, 45; Verg. A. 8, 261: “ignem velut e silice,” Plin. 11, 37, 86, § 214; cf.: “flammas ex sese,” id. 18, 35, 84, § 358: “ignes nubibus,” Ov. M. 6, 696: “aërem lituis,” Luc. 7, 476: “partum,” i. e. to produce abortion, Cels. 1, 7; Plin. 25, 3, 7, § 25: “litteras,” to strike out by syncope, to elide, Gell. 5, 12, 5: “vina praelis,” i. e. to press out, Prop. 4 (5), 6, 73. cf. “herbam,” Ov. F. 4, 371: “corpora equorum eodem elisa, i. e. ad litus ejecta,” Tac. A. 2, 24.—
B. Trop.: animam alicui, Lucil. ap. Non. 291, 32: “(imago) recta retrorsum Sic eliditur, ut, etc.,” is thrown back, reflected, Lucr. 4, 296: “colores repercussu parietum,” Plin. 37, 9, 52, § 137: “sibilum,” to force out, Cels. 4, 4, 2; cf. “sonum,” Plin. 11, 51, 112, § 269; 14, 22, 28, § 146: “vocem,” Quint. 11, 3, 51: “morbum,” to drive out, expel, Cels. 4, 4, 3; Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 6: magnas sententias, to send forth, utter (the fig. being that of a cloud discharging itself), Quint. 2, 11, 7 Spald.—
II. To break or dash to pieces, to shatter, to crush to death.
A. Lit.: “talos alicui,” Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 12: “tuum caput,” id. Poen. 2, 46; Liv. 21, 45: “fauces,” to strangle, Ov. M. 12, 142: naves, * Caes. B. C. 3, 27, 2: “aliquem stipite,” Curt. 9, 7 fin.: “draconem pondere,” Plin. 8, 11, 11, § 32: “geminos angues (Hercules),” i. e. to strangle, Verg. A. 8, 289; cf. “infantes,” Flor. 3, 3, 17 al.—
